Who’s Glued To The ‘Telly’? The United Kingdom has a particularly strong culture of television viewership. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to a survey by Statista Consumer Insights, almost a third of UK respondents watch at least 11 hours of television per week. You will find more infographics at Statista This is slightly higher than other European nations such as France at 29 percent, or Germany at 28 […]

Brussels Bureaucrats Push For Expanded Legal Migration Routes Into Europe To Help Those Who ‘Dream Of A Better Life’ Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The European Union must expand legal migration channels and intensify pressure on the criminal networks behind illegal border crossings, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday at a global migration conference in Brussels. Von der Leyen argued […]

NYT Editorial Board Urges US To Prepare For Future War With China Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The New York Times editorial board released a video this week calling for the US to “prepare for the future of war” and urged the Pentagon to take drastic steps to be better prepared for a potential fight with China, a conflict that could quickly turn nuclear. “US politicians often boast that America has the ‘Strongest […]

Gaming The System: Huge Proportion Of ‘Elite’ University Students Claiming Disabilities Just when you thought the ongoing cultivation of weakness in American youth couldn’t get much worse, huge proportions of the student bodies at US universities are enrolling with official disability designations that bestow various accommodations upon the students who claim them. As you may have expected, the alarming trend is most pronounced […]

FDA Investigating Deaths Potentially Linked To COVID-19 Vaccines Across Age Ranges Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking into the potential links between COVID-19 vaccination and deaths in various age groups, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). A nurse holds a COVID-19 vaccine in Miami, Fla., in this undated file photograph. […]

Criminalizing Bible Verses? Canadian Lawmakers Target Religious Expression With Proposed ‘Hate Speech’ Amendment In a move that should alarm anyone who is pro-free speech, members of Canada’s Liberal Party have capitulated to pressure from Quebec’s ultra-secular separatist party by voting to strip away a longstanding religious exemption from the country’s hate-speech laws as part of the draconian Bill C-9, also known as the […]

Jordan Peterson Out Of Hospital But Still “Very Unwell”, Daughter Says Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Canadian psychologist and public speaker Jordan Peterson is continuing to fight an uphill battle with his health but has returned home after spending several months in the hospital, his daughter says. Author, media commentator, and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson addresses the 5th Demographic […]

US Solar Installations Soar As Developers Rush To Secure Tax Credits The U.S. solar market saw a significant jump in capacity installations in the third quarter as developers ramp up activity and construction to qualify for the last investment tax credits that are being phased out by the Trump Administration. As OilPrice reported, the industry added 11.7 gigawatts direct current (GWdc) of solar power capacity in the third quarter […]

Israel Used Palantir Technology In Its 2024 Lebanon Pager Attack Via Middle East Eye Palantir software was used by Israel in its 2024 pager attacks in Lebanon, according to a new book by Alex Karp, co-founder of the Palantir tech company. On September 17, thousands of pagers belonging to Hezbollah members, including civilians not involved in any armed activity, were detonated across Lebanon. Many showed “error” messages and […]

Top Democrat: Murder Of DC National Guard Just An ‘Unfortunate Accident’ During a heated House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Thursday, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) sparked outrage by dismissing the Thanksgiving-eve shooting of two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., as an “unfortunate accident.” The casual characterization of what DHS Secretary Kristi Noem quickly corrected as a terrorist attack revealed Thompson’s […]

The Million Petty Annoyances Of California’s Regulatory State Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, The litany of reasons California is broken is well documented. The highest cost of living and the highest taxes. The highest percentages of homeless people and people living in poverty. Unaffordable homes and unaffordable rent. High crime and failing schools. A hostile business climate and record migration out of state as […]

Blue State Governors Are Refusing To Implement Trump’s ‘No Tax On Tips’ On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to end federal taxes on tips and overtime. Democrats dismissed it as an election-year ploy to win votes, but Trump delivered on that promise when he signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4, which eliminated taxes on tips and overtime for service and hospitality workers. However, blue-state […]

What Is Really Happening With Vaccination Policy? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The national press was overtaken with hullabaloo following the recent meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This is a committee that serves under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), providing a check of outside expertise on what would otherwise be a bureaucratic edict. […]

Letitia James Off The Hook Again As 2nd Grand Jury Refuses To Indict New York Attorney General Letitia James has dodged yet another bullet from the Trump DOJ, after a second federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia declined to indict her on mortgage fraud charges for the second time in a week, after their first case against James was dismissed because a federal judge ruled that Halligan’s appointment as interim US attorney […]

Senate Democrats Unite To Condemn Tucker Carlson Over Nick Fuentes Interview Authored by José Niño via Headline USA (emphasis ours), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer just forced Republicans into an uncomfortable corner over antisemitism, and the silence from the GOP side of the aisle speaks volumes. On Monday, Schumer introduced a resolution condemning nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes over ‘antisemitism’ and Tucker […]

Prepare For Coming World War, NATO Chief Says NATO chief Mark Rutte on Thursday gave a major address in Berlin wherein he pleaded with members of the alliance to drastically step up joint defense efforts, in order to face down a coming conflict with Russia that could be “on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured.” It in the “keynote speech” he chastized those alliance partners who don’t feel the urgency of […]

Waste Of The Day: Shockingly, Inmate Phone Calls Lead To More Criminal Activity Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigaions, Topline: A new program that gives unlimited free phone calls to Massachusetts prisoners cost taxpayers $12.5 million in fiscal year 2025, according to the Boston Herald.  Key facts: The program was meant to allow inmates to stay connected to their family members and other outside support […]

Jasmine Crockett Announces US Senate Run And It’s Already Comedy Gold Democrat meme and congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is running for the US Senate in the deep red state of Texas, and Republicans are cheering.  Notorious for providing some of the worst political takes of the past year, Crockett is widely considered to be the embodiment of leftist DEI – A low intelligence person artificially elevated into law and politics because of […]

“Fraud On Epic Scale”: Do Kown Gets 15 Year Prison Sentence For $40BN Terraform Fraud Many will point to the collapse of the Terra ecosystem in May 2022 as the trigger for the last crypto crash/winter which eventually culminated with the collapse of FTX. And moments ago, a judge added a prison sentence for the mastermind behind it all.  Terraform Labs co-founder and onetime fugitive Do Kwon, who in August pled guilty over one of […]

Pritzker Signs Law Limiting Federal Immigration Enforcement In Illinois Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law on Dec. 9 that will limit federal immigration enforcement in the state, including in its courthouses and hospitals. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a press conference with Texas Democrats at the International Union of Painters and Allied […]

2.5 Million Illegal Immigrants Deported Under Trump Admin: DHS Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than 2.5 million illegal immigrants have left the United States under the Trump administration, a “record-breaking achievement” in a year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a Dec. 10 statement. U.S. Customs and Border Protection security agents guide illegal immigrants onboard a […]

Asset Purchases Begin: Fed To Buy $8.2BN In Bills Friday; Full Monthly Schedule Released It’s only appropriate that one day after Powell unveiled QE, pardon NOT QE, pardon Reserve Management Purchases (as we said he would a month ago), that the New York Fed would do what it did for the entire duration of QE 1, QE 2, QE 3 and so forth, and publish the POMO, pardon NOT POMO schedule of daily asset purchases. But since it’s Bills and […]

After Polar Vortex US Freeze, Global Warming Returns Before Christmas The Mid-Atlantic and Northeast have been locked in an extended period of unseasonably cold weather, with multiple rounds of accumulating snowfall over the past several weeks. Another surge of Arctic air is expected to arrive this weekend and persist into early next week. However, there is good news for those hoping for a break from the cold: the latest model […]

White House: Seized Dark-Fleet Tanker Now En Route To U.S.; Track Its Position Here Update (1540ET): White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that the VLCC Skipper, seized by U.S. forces on Wednesday, is inbound to a “U.S. port and that the U.S. intends to seize the oil. However, she noted that there is a legal process for such a seizure, and that process will be followed.” ⚠️🇺🇸 TRUMP ORDERS […]

OPEC Maintains Bullish Oil Demand Outlook, IEA Trims Oil Glut Forecast Oil prices are lower this morning despite a less-hawkish-than-feared Fed cut and a double-whammy of relative optimism from OPEC and the IEA… IEA Trims Oil Glut Forecast as Supply Surge Halts OilPrice.com’s Tsvetana Paraskova reports that the oil market still faces record oversupply next year, according to the monthly report by the International Energy […]